APPENDIX V. 1O9 



(2) Reply to the foregoing Letter. 



SION, KILKENNV, October, 1842 

 MY DEAR BRISCOE, 



I now write you the opinions and wishes of some of my 

 hunting men and my own relative to your hunting some of 

 the coverts belonging to the old-established Club and to 

 the County Kilkenny Foxhounds ; and hope that the 

 arrangement will meet the approbation of Mr. Ponsonby 

 and the other members of the Bessborough family, as also 

 yourself and other friends in your neighbourhood, and I 

 am happy to find that the kind support which my father 

 and I have invariably received has so increased the stock 

 of foxes all over the Kilkenny country as to enable us to 

 contribute to your sport without injuring our own. We 

 agree to your hunting and stopping the country containing 

 the following coverts, viz. : Glenbower, Grove of Bess- 

 borough, Holden's Hill, Gortrush (?) woods, once a week 

 until the first day of March, when this arrangement is to 

 cease after this hunting season, and a new one be entered 

 into the following year and agreed to as circumstances 

 admit. In order to allow the Kilkenny Foxhounds a fair 

 chance of finding in spring, we require from the first of 

 February, should your hounds, in hunting any part of the 

 country, run through and disturb on other days any of the 

 coverts before mentioned, that you are to consider having 

 done so as one of your weekly draws ; also that no fox is 

 to be dug out from any place. You may observe that we 

 have reserved Carricktriss covert exclusively for ourselves, 

 to endeavour to secure a certain find for our men who may 

 come a long distance from the Kilkenny side. 



Yours, &:c., 



JOHN POWER. 



